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Jim Wald
Jim Wald

Jim Wald

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Jim Wald

CitizenWald@historians.social

Cultural historian of modern Europe, Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Allied faculty, UMass Public History

Revolutionary era, World Wars, Nazism, antisemitism.
Book history, German literature, material culture, historic preservation.

Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism
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• Past posts
-Chair of Board, Massachusetts Center for the Book
-Treasurer, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing
-Chair, Amherst Historical Commission
-Amherst Select Board

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Jim Wald

2 months ago • •

Jim Wald

2 months ago • •


ironic anniversaries

March 7 was the birthday of the man who created modern #Czechoslovakia and the one who nearly destroyed it

- President Liberator Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937)
- Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich (1904; assassinated by Czechoslovak paratroopers, 1942)
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black-and-white photo:
Heydrich (in front of officers and troops)l facing left and giving the Nazi salute at Prague Castle--where he ruled from the presidential office that Masaryk had formerly occupied)
postal cover with special postmark in red celebrating Masaryk's 85th birthday, 1935:

right: red 1-Crown stamp depicting Masaryk (pince-nez, goatee) in characteristic peaked cap looking left

circular postmarks top left, center, and right with the location (Prague Castle) and date (7 March 1935)

two vignettes (beneath each: *1850*T. G.MASARYK*1935*

between the left and central postmarks: coat of arms with the nationak motto Pravda Vitězi--Truth Prevalls

between the central postmark and the stamp: entrance to Prague Castle
#czechoslovakia
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